Use portfolios to group your deals according to deal activity or according to your company accounting or reporting structure. For example, you might create a portfolio for the following deal activities: operating, service, capital, trading, equities, and hedging.
You must create at least one portfolio for each company that you set up.
Portfolios are essential to the Treasury accounting structure. For each portfolio you create, you must set up an entirely separate set of deals, deal subtypes, and product types within your journal structure. Therefore, adding a new portfolio adds a new level of complexity to your Treasury system.
Suggestion: Minimize the number of portfolios you create. To make it easier for you to maintain your deals, deal subtypes, and product types, you should only create as many portfolios as you need to support your company accounting practices.
You can create two types of portfolios. Internal portfolios are portfolios that are managed directly by your company. External portfolios are portfolios that are managed by your company for a third party. External portfolios appear in the Portfolio Codes window only for the counterparties that have the external portfolio.
After you create a portfolio, you must create journal entries for each combination of deal type, deal subtype and product type that uses the portfolio. See: Journal Entry Actions.
Use the Portfolios window to set up portfolios for your various companies.
Navigate to the Portfolios window.
Query or enter the Company code that you want.
Enter a unique Code and Name for the portfolio.
If the portfolio is for an external party, select the External Portfolio check box and enter the external party in the Ext Party field.
If you want to set this portfolio as the default internal portfolio, select the Internal check box.
Save your work.